The Working Class at War

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Dr Nick Mansfield, Senior Research Fellow at UCLan in Preston, will talk about why most trade unions and socialists supported the war, how they helped raise and sustain volunteers for the army and how these working class efforts won the war, achieving some modest gains.

Mansfield’s talk will explore in detail some of the themes covered in the museum’s current changing exhibition A Land Fit For Heroes which details working class support for and efforts to win the war.

Part of the First World War Centenary Programme.

Suitable for adults and young people

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